Senior PHP Developer
Location: GB, , London
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Required education: Bachelor's Degree
Industry: Financial Services
Function: Information Technology

Company profile:
At LendInvest fundamentally changing the way people think about their savings, investments and how you get a mortgage. We're the new generation of finance, which is far less stuffy as we are building a new way to do things - and having some fun along the way. If you want to be part of building the future of finance, then we'd love to hear from you. LendInvest has been prominently recognised as a leader for its growth and innovation. We are based in a prime central London building, with a very cool work environment.LendInvest is a direct employer and we therefore do not work with any recruitment agencies. Recruiters, please do not spam us, we are not interested in hearing from you.For a look at what we're creating, you can see more on our site at: #URL_a472ef05be663cdc9df7eb234d26330394196f039430435745cd6695790fd82e#

Job description:
We are currently building several products for LendInvest - the world's largest peer-to-peer (P2P) marketplace real estate mortgages. We are a loan originating beast as well as the lender.We are re-implementing and extending the current investor portal in Symfony2, creating a new borrower portal (for people applying for loans), and creating products for a "Secondary Market" (people buying and selling loan investments), adding new "Auto-Lending" functionality as well as working on APIs for third parties and many other projects in the pipeline.The work is all greenfield work (we are not refactoring the old codebase but replacing it, and there is no legacy code).There are 6 server-side developers (soon to be 5.5 as one goes half-time), 2 (soon 3) front-end, one QA, 1 technical BA, 1 offshore designer, 1 offshore sysadmin and another offshore fullstack support dev.We are looking for an amazing/gun/guru server-side developer to spend about 70%-80% time developing in Symfony 2, and the remainder of time helping some of the other team members further develop their skills with Symfony 2 specifics, answering the "how do I...?" questions and being one of the main senior devs conducting code reviews and mentoring on other aspects where applicable.  Candidates must have strong recent hands-on Symfony2 experience as well as excellent knowledge of software engineering best practices, design patterns, etc. Our servers are on AWS, database is MySQL (soon to be Amazon RDS), we are ramping up CI with Jenkins and we use Behat and PHPSpec. We operate in an Agile environment using Scrum methodology.The successful candidate must be eligible to work in the UK without sponsorship.

Requirements:
6+ years PHP 5 Object Oriented experience including strong experience with an MVC PHP framework2+ years using Symfony / Symfony2 (recent Symfony2 experience required)Doctrine 2MySQLRESTful services Comfortable working with version control using GitAgile Scrum methodology experience PHPSpec/TDD  Behat/BDDSelf-reliant, creative problem solver, outcome orientatedAdaptive learner, someone who’s motivated by the challenge of getting things done, team playerStrong communication skillsOther plus points:Previous mentor/coaching experienceA love for technology and learning about new technologies

Benefits:
HackathonsLots of greenfield projectsOpportunity to attend conferences/seminars to expand your knowledge and further your educationAbility to choose a brand new work station of your choice (Windows, OSX or Linux)Fully stocked fridge and pantry with light breakfast available every day, fresh fruit and more food, beverages &amp; snacks than you could ever eat;Team lunch bought for you every FridaySubsidised gym membership (with pool)Opportunity to grow your career with our rapidly growing companyEasy commute to Central London office (Fitzrovia)Fun, young and very sociable team